Freedom Quote by Jon Meacham

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Liberty will always triumph over fear and fundamentalism. Our desire to be free is greater than their desire to terrorise and our capacity to…

— David Alejandro Fearnhead

“Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are…

— Thomas Paine

“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...”

— John Adams

While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the…

— John Quincy Adams

“but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.”

— Will Durant

“Liberty isn't bestowed; it's achieved. It is not a gift; it's a conquest. It does not abide; it must be preserved.”

— Albert E. Bowen

“Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.”

— George Washington

“for men whose desire for liberty has been destroyed, liberty must be thrust upon them.”

— Milo Hastings

“Truth and liberty go hand in hand. Liberty is the state of mind, that gives rise to the truth, the ultimate state of being,…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete,…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau